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Spirituality and Hallucinogen Use: Results from a Pilot Study among College Students
Get PDFAnthropologists have studied the use of hallucinogens as a spiritual tool by indigenous
populations since the turn of the 20th century. However, literature is sparse in describing
use by non-indigenous populations. Using a study population of students from a university
in the Southwest United States, the current study investigated the spiritual development and
meaning that college students place on their use of hallucinogenic substances. The spiritual
framework developed by Love and Talbot (1999) and a transpersonal anthropological
approach were used to guide the study. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with
each participant. Results indicated that participants used hallucinogens for both spiritual
and recreational purposes with hallucinogen use playing an important role in their continued
exploration of spirituality, which was an integral part of their lives. This pilot study could
serve as a primer for future research on the role of hallucinogen use in the spiritual experiences
of contemporary U.S. college students, and other non-indigenous Western populations
Shamanism, Imagery Cultivation, and Psi-Signal Detection: A Theoretical Model, Experimental Protocol, and Preliminary Data
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Integral Psychology: Personal to Planetary Transformation
No full textIntegral Psychology: Personal to Planetary TransformationSri Aurobindo and Haridas Chaudhuri have given us an extraordinary integral foundation for exploring personal, social and planetary transformation. In this presentation, we will discuss the relationship and application of Integral Yoga and Psychology as the power, inspiration and motivating force for spiritual practice that consciously serves self, the world and all beings
Integral dreaming : a holistic approach to dreams
No full textA holistic approach to the fascinating, multifaceted world of dreams. This innovative book offers a holistic approach to one of the most fascinating and puzzling aspects of human experience: dreaming. Advocating the broad-ranging vision termed “integral” by thinkers from Aurobindo to Wilber, Fariba Bogzaran and Daniel Deslauriers consider dreams as multifaceted phenomena in an exploration that includes scientific, phenomenological, sociocultural, and subjective knowledge. Drawing from historical, cross-cultural, and contemporary practices, both interpretive and noninterpretive, the authors present Integral Dream Practice, an approach that emphasizes the dreamer’s creative participation, reflective capacities, and mindful awareness in working with dreams. Bogzaran and Deslauriers have developed this comprehensive way of approaching dreams over many years and highlight their methods in a chapter that unfolds a single dream, showing how sustained creative exploration over time leads to transformative change.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/facultypublications/1000/thumbnail.jp
Mental Health and the Paranormal
Get PDFTo date, there has been a dearth of work examining the relationships between paranormal
experiences and mental health. After defining paranormal experience and its prevalence,
I examine a number of areas related to paranormal experience and psychopathology: psi
and the unconscious, dissociation and fantasy proneness, schizotypy, transliminality and
reality monitoring, child abuse, reasoning and information processing, and transpersonal
psychology. Finally, I discuss the clinical implications of these findings
Integrative Health Studies Newsletter
Get PDFThis is the Spring 2012 issue of the Integrative Health Studies Newsletter at CIIS.https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/integrative-healthnewsletter/1022/thumbnail.jp
Integral Ecology Panel
No full textIntegral Ecology panel The gravity and complexity of the global ecological crisis calls for integral approaches to ecology. Such approaches are concerned with the transformation of human conceptual, psychological, and cultural patterns that have become an imminent danger to the health of the entire Earth community, as well as with the cultivation of new structures of human experience and action that are more harmoniously aligned with the natural world and the larger cosmic order within which we dwell. Speakers on this panel will explore some of the history and implications of the emergence of more integral ecologies
Integral Ecofeminism
No full textIntegral Ecofeminism The integral ecofeminist worldview expressed in this presentation recognizes the ever growing, ever expanding, ever changing nature of things as existing beyond our limited ability to perceive and/or explain the world we know. It calls us to a journey, to the realm of spirit for initiation. It is a prayer for helping us to understand that which we oftentimes cannot describe nor explain adequately though the vehicle of language. Rather than be limited to our words, integral ecofeminism asks that at times we be willing to communicate through our hearts; for the love that is generated from within that crucible has the power to embrace and nurture the rising tension of the entire planet. Further, are called to “spirate” language, to borrow Mary Daly’s term, breathing the life of the Muse into the creation of reality. This presentation offers an introduction to integral ecofeminism as a spiritual and philosophical pathway for the realization of a global community while providing the tools by which the container for global metamorphosis is created